Islamic Republican Party

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by Eduardo Sato4 views·Updated Sep 19, 2023
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  1. The Islamic Republican Party.
  2. So what was it really formed?
  3. In 1979 the group was created in order
  4. to assist Ayatollah Khomeini in establishing theocracy in Iran
  5. and maintain his power after the revolution.
  6. This party was created after only two weeks of the Iranian revolution and he
  7. came to hold approximately 3 million members
  8. that agreed to the conservative cause.
  9. Notable founding personnel include Mohammad Javad Baher,
  10. Mohammed
  11. Beheshti
  12. Akbar, Hashemi. Half
  13. so Halfan
  14. Jani
  15. Ali Kaine
  16. and Abdul Karim
  17. Moa
  18. Abili.
  19. The group was distinguished by a strong clerical component,
  20. its loyalty towards Khomeini
  21. and its strong animosity towards liberal political
  22. movements and its support towards revolutionary organizations.
  23. Also the policies that were mainly focused during the establishment of such
  24. party were the state takeover of capital of large capital enterprises.
  25. The establishment of an Islamic cultural and
  26. an establishment of university system as well as programs to assist the poor.
  27. Although
  28. the Islamic Republican Party was able
  29. to successfully ban other political parties,
  30. they disbanded in 1987.
  31. And by its leaders choice Khomeini,
  32. it was stated that the group was unable to accomplish much and it was too volatile.
  33. They were then replaced by the Muslim People's Republic Party,
  34. which was seen as a more moderate, more liberal counterweight.
  35. Knowing all of that,
  36. we can observe that the practices promoted by this
  37. organization could lead to the global issues of abuse
  38. of human rights through the use of political power
  39. as it was shown that the group were oppressed,
  40. any other political standing and thus abusing the
  41. right to freedom of speech in Iran.
  42. Not only that the Islamic culture became mandatory and heavily enforced,
  43. transforming Iranian society into a much more conservative community
  44. through such transformations.
  45. As the global issue of lack of human rights can also be explored
  46. as in the idealized version of what the group wished to create.
  47. Women were given little to no liberty compared to men.